DARNEL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. DARNEL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DARNEL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DARNEL is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DARNEL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
darnelsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DARNEL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in DARNEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,162.
What stands out about DARNEL
- The same 6 tiles also spell 5 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DARNEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A weedy grass, especially Lolium temulentum, that grows among cereal crops and whose seeds have long been considered mildly poisonous.
Darnel grows as a common weed in wheat and other grain fields across Europe and Asia, closely resembling the cereal crop itself until it heads out and reveals its narrower grain. Its seeds are often infected by a fungus that produces toxic alkaloids, which historically caused dizziness or worse in people who accidentally milled it into flour, giving the plant a long-standing reputation as poisonous. The parable of the wheat and the tares is widely thought to describe darnel, since a young plant is hard to tell apart from wheat. Related, less troublesome species of the same genus are grown deliberately as pasture and hay grasses.
How DARNEL is used
Found mainly in botanical, agricultural and historical writing about weeds of grain fields.
- Farmers pulled darnel from among the young wheat shoots.
- The old story warns that darnel looks almost identical to wheat until it ripens.
- Contaminated flour containing darnel once caused outbreaks of dizziness and illness.
- Botanists identified the weed choking the field as darnel.
- Darnel seeds were separated from the grain before milling.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DARNEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DARNEL
The 6 tiles of DARNEL in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with DARNEL
1 longer words begin with DARNEL.
Shorter words from the letters in DARNEL
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Common questions about DARNEL
- Is DARNEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DARNEL, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DARNEL worth?
- DARNEL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DARNEL mean?
- A weedy grass, especially Lolium temulentum, that grows among cereal crops and whose seeds have long been considered mildly poisonous.
- What letters can be added to DARNEL?
- DARNEL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of DARNEL:
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